Here’s the main thrust from last week’s message from the Rebel With A Cause series: Fulfillment comes in who you can be, not what you can do. Whenever we try to find fulfillment in what we can do (accomplishments), it leaves us empty. We can never accomplish enough to find a place of lasting fulfillment. [...]
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One of the greatest gifts anyone can receive is the gift of kindness. I had a long drive home from Riverside last night and God brought an event to my mind. I was a college student at Bethany College in Santa Cruz, CA. My pastor, Glen Cole of Capital Christian Center in Sacramento, came to [...]
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“Show up every Sunday morning with a burden that is so heavy that you feel like you will die if you don’t deliver it. And pray for that. Because if you don’t have that, then you just have information.”- Andy Stanley in an interview with Ed Stetzer. You can read the whole interview here. Andy [...]
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I’m telling the fictional story of two young adults, Joseph and Maria, in the “Rebel With a Cause” message series from Romans. Check it out at: josephandmaria.wordpress.com.
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I shared this story last weekend in my sermon series from Romans, “Rebel With a Cause”: Because I grew up in church, I’ve heard quite a few Christian songs. As I was thinking about what it meant to put my confidence in the mercy and grace of Jesus Christ I was reminded of an [...]
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Can you lose one pound a week by giving up sweets and snacks? These are the items I gave up for Lent. After one week, I’m down a pound. I’m going to see it if this trend continues each week. I’ve made a commitment to keep these things out of my diet after Lent is [...]
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Young adults aren’t as messed up spiritually as their parents might be. That’s the good news. The bad news is that many churches might be too messed up to take advantage of this fact. A read through “Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them” by Ed Stetzer comes which facts, [...]
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We’ve developed a saying at Sweetwater River Church… The next idea should be our best idea. The reason is that we cannot rest of what has been working…we need to project into the future. But waiting for the best idea is not a guarantee that it will be the best. If we wait until we [...]
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